Blues legend Sam “Lightnin” Hopkins (19121982) was born on this date
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Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was a bluesman who carried on the old country cotton-field style of the early Texas blues. In fact, blues historian Samuel Charters has called Hopkins the last of the old country bluesmen. Hopkins had a rough, unpolished singing style that remained pretty much the same throughout his career of more than 50 years..
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Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins was a master stylist of Blues guitar, who had an engaging talent for improvising humorous lyrics to his vast repertoire of songs. His complex guitar work had the flavour of early Texas Blues styles, and although his voice was dry and scratchy, his songs and the spontaneous stories he told at his gigs were rich, poetical.
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Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins, blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, was born in Centerville, Texas in 1912 to sharecropping parents whose exact identities are unknown. At eight, Hopkins met legendary bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson at a social function in Buffalo, Texas.
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Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins Original Name Samuel John Hopkins Birth 15 Mar 1912 Centerville, Leon County, Texas, USA Death 30 Jan 1982 (aged 69) Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA Burial Forest Park Cemetery Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA Show Map Plot Section 23 (Lawn View), Lot 266, Space 11. From the road, he's southwest of the Zuchowski grave
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Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins Sam John Hopkins b. March 15, 1911 in Centerville, Leon County, Texas d. January 30, 1982 at St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas buried at Forest Park Cemetery in Houston, Texas discography: Man at Work !!! (Please do not comment until I'm stumped, i.e. until this piece of advice has disappeared ;-) #
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Sage, scoundrel and natural-born storyteller, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins had a genius for improvised poetry, creating new verses or entire songs as the spirit moved him. He could sing about hairstyles, being broke, how his car was doing, goings-on in the club where he was performing, or the way things used to be.
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Sage, scoundrel and natural-born storyteller, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins had a genius for improvised poetry, creating new verses or entire songs as the spirit moved him. He could sing about hairstyles, being broke, how his car was doing, goings-on in the club where he was performing, or the way things used to be.
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Samuel John " Lightnin " Hopkins (March 15, 1912 - January 30, 1982) [1] was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. [2]
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Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins, one of the great country blues singers and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players, died Saturday in Houston, where he made his home. He would have.
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Born Sam Hopkins on March 15, 1912, his father was a musician who died when Sam was very young. The family moved to Leona in Texas where he grew up; in 1920 he watched Blind Lemon Jefferson.
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Lightnin' Hopkins. Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 - January 30, 1982) was a blues guitar musician, from Houston, Texas who became a popular recording artist on the R&B charts in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and then experienced even greater success among white audiences during the blues revival of the 1960s.
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Lightnin' was born Sam Hopkins in Centerville in 1912. He had two older brothers, but his father died in 1915 when Hopkins was only 3 years old. Sam Hopkins rambled around the churches and beer joints of Leon County with blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson and his own larger-than-life cousin Texas Alexander. Both men had a lasting impact on.
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0:00 / 4:44 Sam Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton fischkopf 22.2K subscribers Subscribe 8.4K Share Save 1.3M views 16 years ago The enduring musical journey of Sam Lightnin' Hopkins began on a cotton.
Illustrated Sam 'Lightnin'' Hopkins discography
Tracklist:00:00 - Meet You at the Chicken Shack05:40 - Once Was a Gambler10:37 - Speedin' Boogie13:47 - Ice Storm Blues21:06 - California Showers28:54 - Burn.
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Sam ("Lightning") Hopkins (15 March 1911 - 30 January 1982) was a blues singer and guitarist born in Centerville, Texas. He's now considered as the last of the great country bluesmen who.
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins Bring Me My Shotgun The Essential Collection
Texas bluesman Samuel "Lightnin'" Hopkins' musical career was reignited by this 1959 release. With the aid of a little gin and a borrowed acoustic guitar, musicologist Sam Charters recorded Hopkins in his tiny apartment in Houston, Texas.
